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European regulators are investigating oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Statoil of Norway, as part of a probe into the way that oil price benchmarks are set.

Platts, the world’s leading price reporting agency, is also among those investigated.

The European Commission in Brussels said in a statement that raids had occurred on Tuesday in the offices of “several companies” in two EU countries and another country. It did not identify the firms or the countries involved.

Amazon employees in Germany have gone on strike in what is believed to be one of the first such stoppages to hit the US internet retailer.

About 850 workers at warehouses in two German cities had joined the stoppage, due to last for one working day, by lunchtime on Tuesday, with union representatives saying more would strike when a later shift at the facilities was due to begin.